Almost Over Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1848
sonnet <artist/> <location/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>Two texts of this sonnet come down to us: the one printed by WMR in his <xref doc="a.pr5240.f11.rad" workcode="18-1848" from="264">1911 edition</xref>; and DGR's <xref doc="a.tinker.yale.rad" workcode="18-1848" from="[7]">fair copy manuscript</xref> in the Tinker Collection at Yale. The two texts differ substantially, so that WMR must have had access to another, at present untraced, manuscript.</p> <p> This is another of the <foreign lang="french"> <hi rend="i"> <xref doc="a.42-1848.raw">bouts rimés</xref> </hi> </foreign> sonnets that DGR and WMR wrote to rhymes they set for each other. The brothers played this verse game between 1847-1849, and principally in 1848. The rule was that the sonnet should be written quickly, in five to ten minutes (see <bibl> <xref doc="a.pr5240.f11.rad" from="673" to="674" workcode="16-1848">1911</xref>, pages <pages>673-674</pages> </bibl>).</p> </section> <section type="texthistcomp"> <head>Textual History: Composition</head> <p/> </section> <section type="texthistrev"> <head>Textual History: Revision</head> <p/> </section> <section type="prodhist"> <head>Production History</head> <p/> </section> <section type="recepthist"> <head>Reception</head> <p/> </section> <section type="icon"> <head>Iconographic</head> <p/> </section> <section type="printhist"> <head>Printing History</head> <p>First published by WMR in his collected edition of <xref doc="a.pr5240.f11.rad" from="264" workcode="18-1848">1911</xref>.</p> </section> <section type="pictorial"> <head>Pictorial</head> <p/> </section> <section type="historical"> <head>Historical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="literary"> <head>Literary</head> <p/> </section> <section type="translation"> <head>Translation</head> <p/> </section> <section type="autobio"> <head>Autobiographical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="biblio"> <head>Bibliographic</head> <p> <bibl> <author>Paull F. Baum</author>, <xref doc="a."> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Analytical List of Manuscripts in the Duke University Library</hi> (1931), 14-16, 56-65 Frances Winwar, <xref doc="a." link="dead">“Dante Gabriel's or William Michael's?</xref> (March 1933), 312-315

Tinker fair copy Manuscript
Tinker fair copy Manuscript The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1911) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1911 0 Sonnets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Tinker Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1848-50 0